Anthony Jamarillo-Medrano, an 18-year-old resident of our lovely Hub City, was recently treated to a brand new mugshot and a whopping $200,000 bond at the Lubbock County Detention Center. He was arrested on May 4 following a March incident where he apparently decided that committing a sexual assault wasn’t enough—he also needed to make sure there was high-definition, irrefutable evidence waiting for the police.
According to court documents, the victim went out drinking back in late February and ended up leaving her apartment after a roommate argument. She hitched a ride with Jamarillo-Medrano and two other “friends,” took some shots of vodka, and promptly blacked out. She woke up hours later at a completely random apartment complex with no memory of what happened. But don’t worry, the guys she was with were helpful enough to leave a digital trail.
Later that day while out at dinner, the victim checked her cell phone and discovered a horror show of videos recorded during her blackout. The footage clearly showed her incapacitated in the back seat, explicitly stating she just wanted to sleep, while Jamarillo-Medrano assaulted her. To add to the sheer, unadulterated idiocy of the situation, another unnamed suspect was captured smiling and laughing into the camera from the front seat while filming the crime.
It took Lubbock authorities a couple of months to execute the warrant, but Jamarillo-Medrano is finally locked up. You really have to marvel at the logic of modern West Texas criminals, who apparently think handing the police a self-produced snuff film of their own felony on the victim’s own device is a solid legal strategy.
Does the Lubbock Independent School District need to add a mandatory class on “How Not to Document Your Own Prison Sentence,” or are our local teens just naturally determined to make the police department’s job as easy as humanly possible?
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